By Lauren Boykin | Contributor North Texas Performing Arts announces its 2022 NTPA Stardust Award recipients for Leadership and Education. The Distinguished Performing Arts Leader award will go to Gregory Arp, Plano ISD Theatre & Speech Coordinator. Mr. Arp has led Plano ISD’s theatre and speech program strategy for the past…
By Becky Mayad | Contributor In his final year of service to the City of Plano, Mayor Harry LaRosiliere took a fond look back at the first seven years of the Plano Mayor’s Summer Internship Program (PMSIP) as he announced plans for the 2021 program. Recruitment for businesses to sign up is underway…
By Taylor Mayad | Contributor Sounds of cheer, noisemakers and pumped-up music made for a fun morning as 52 teens who participated in the Plano Mayor’s Summer Internship Program were celebrated during a drive-by parade on July 27 at the Hilton/Dallas Plano Granite Park Hotel. With cowbells, signs, pom-poms, clackers…
Plano ISD and public school sophomores and juniors who reside in the City of Plano and who are interested in a chance to work at a top North Texas company this summer have an opportunity to apply for Plano Mayor Harry LaRosiliere’s Summer Internship Program. Students with at least…
“There is no health without mental health.” –World Health Organization It’s another Monday in Plano ISD at Davis Elementary School. Students enter classes and listen to the announcements for the day over the school intercom system. The student announcer closes by saying, “now it’s time for the Mindfulness Monday Moment…
Congratulations, Teachers of the Year! Plano ISD 2016 Elementary and Secondary Teachers of the Year, Erika Manning, Weatherford Elementary School instructional specialist, and Bryan Yee, Plano Senior High School mathematics teacher, respectively, were announced by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian T. Binggeli at Plano ISD’s Teacher of the Year…
Unique Partnership with Toyota and National Center for Families Learning Benefits Literacy As seen on PISD.edu A national two-generation family learning program that aims to provide a solution to the educational challenges facing low-income and ethnically diverse families was recently unveiled in Plano. The program – funded by a $175,000…
Cary Israel Leaves A Legacy at Collin College By Jenny Wood/ Education & Schools Editor When Cary Israel took the helm of Collin County’s only public college in 1999, the school was called Collin County Community College and had a total enrollment of 30,000 students. Today, the renamed Collin…